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by Kristen Rabe
“I know this sounds glib, but I don’t think of literary writing as communication so much as I think of it as making art with language.” —Maya Jewell Zeller, author of Raised by Ferns Glib or not, thank you Maya Jewell Zeller for...
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by Kathy Young
The Shipikisha Club / Mubanga Kalimamukwento / Dzanc Books / Hardcover $27.95 (298pp) / 978-1-938603-75-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A Zambian woman is prosecuted for murder in Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s gripping novel The...
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by Chris Nesbit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Traverse City, MI — Foreword Reviews is implementing a new PDF-First submission model for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, reflecting an industry shift toward sustainability, transparency, and...
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Stricken with grief and fed up with “ink-laced pleasantries,” a bereft daughter takes to the trail, her ultimate destination uncertain, in Olivia Sullivan’s moving graphic novel "Oracles". Having lost her mother and flailed at her...
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Part maternal and filial lament, part horror story, Kirsten Kaschock’s eerie, enrapturing novel follows a biological experiment gone wrong. In a Pennsylvania barn, grief-driven Agnes tinkers with crow DNA, hoping to nurture a specimen...
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In this exhilarating picture book about environmental appreciation, a girl goes out exploring each day. She jars the treasures she finds on her walks, bringing them home for her own nature-based cabinet of curiosities. An encounter with...
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Two adorable gnomes head off for a seaside adventure in this joyous picture book that models appreciation and care for nature. Little Gnouf is so excited to see the ocean that he spends days reading about it before he and Mirabelle...
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by Matt Sutherland
Traverse City, MI, March 5, 2026—Foreword is pleased to share the finalists for the 2025 INDIES Awards. This year’s submission pool was exceptional, and our editorial team faced a challenging task in selecting the books that would...
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